Once ILE, Always ILE

This is not just a tourist trip to Ireland. This is an opportunity of a lifetime. Traveling to Ireland, learning the history and culture, making new friends, learning self-reliance, and gaining independence are just a few of the benefits. Simply put, this program is priceless. Listen to Maureen and give the gift of a lifetime to a special teen in your life!

It is one fan’s voyage through life within the context of that devotion, following an arcing, sometimes looping, path from self-centered isolation to connection and integration. It begins in an Irish Catholic family in the eighties, where the author first hears U2 on her older siblings’ vinyl. After a traumatic brain injury in adolescence, the only light through the depression that followed was Bono singing alone at a darkened bar in the 1992 video for “One.” From there, the chase begins — from a teenage bedroom wallpapered with U2 to seeing them live again, and again, and again. Available on Amazon.

They are sprinkled with coloring pages, inspiration, and tips to encourage you along the way to meeting your dance goals. Order them, check them out, and keep practicing those 1, 2, 3’s!

“They say all roads lead to Ireland, and for me this rings true. If it was not for the ILE, I would have never met some of my nearest and dearest friends, eventually meeting the love of my life, and recently giving birth to my miracle Irish baby. As a teenager, you never picture what your life will be like 20 years after a summer of a lifetime abroad. I have lived, loved, and breathed the Irish air, and now it is my new home. Thank you so much to the ILE for some of the biggest Irish blessings I could have ever asked for. There is so much to discover in Ireland that you might just discover yourself and your future.” — Katy Farrell O’Connor